Jaycee Lee Dugard is pictured for the first time in People Magazine. Jaycee said, “I’m so happy to be back with my family”, she told the magazine. "Nothing is more important than the unconditional love and support I have from them.” Watching the joy in her face brings tears to my eyes when I think of what she has experienced. Then I feel inspired by how enduring the human spirit can be. That Jaycee can look so fantastic is truly wonderful. She looked radiantly happy, healthy, with a bright broad smile and gorgeous long brown hair over her shoulders.
Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in 1991 when she was just 11 years old. Dugard was abducted as she walked towards the school bus stop within sight of her house in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Carl Probyn, Jaycee’s stepfather, standing in the garage entrance of their family house, watched her walk towards the school bus stop a short distance away. The family’s world fell apart when a woman then grabbed Jaycee and pulled her into a gray sedan before driving off. Carl dashed after the car on his bicycle but couldn’t keep up with them as the two people in the car shot off with Jaycee trapped inside.
Angel, 15, and Starlit, 11, are Jaycee's daughters, apparently fathered by Phillip Garrido, 58; a registered sex offender who police say raped her repeatedly over the years. Phillip Garrido’s home was outside Antioch, CA. It was in the backyard and backgarden that Jaycee and her two daughters lived. They had never been to school or seen a Doctor.
It may come as a shock to many to learn that Phillip and Nancy Garrido actually lived with his ailing elderly mother in a house owned by her. Why hasn’t more been said about her and her involvement in Jaycee’s imprisonment? It’s as if ailing and elderly automatically absolves her of any possible wrong doing. Was she ailing and elderly 18 years ago when Jaycee was first imprisoned in her backyard? Has she been ailing and elderly every day of those 18 years? Was she ailing and elderly 15 years ago when Phillip Garrido spent 5 months in prison and Nancy fed Jaycee alone? Was she ailing and elderly while Jaycee gave birth without any medical aid to two babies.
Overhanging Mimosa trees, dense shrubbery and a high solid fence hid Jaycee’s, Angel’s and Starlit’s shabby world of tents and shacks from the outside world .It was in this cluster of cruddy tents and squalid shacks that Jaycee and her two daughters lived.
Phillip and Nancy Garrido now await trial facing a combined total of 29 felony charges in regard to Jaycee Lee Dugard’s abduction in 1991, and includes rape and false imprisonment.
Jaycee and her two daughters are now living in seclusion with her mom, Terry Probyn, 50, and family. A family spokeswoman said Jaycee was riding horses, cooking meals and thinking of collaborating on a book.
We should not let these images give us permission to dismiss what Jaycee has had to suffer all these years or forget even for a moment that experiences like these take years of therapy to even begin to return to some sort of normality.
They do however give us all hope. The sort of hope that comes from seeing another human being putting on a heartwarming smile even after suffering 18 years of hell.
It is truly inspiring.
Lets all wish her well on her road to recovery.
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